New Delhi, April 2 -- Former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi was seriously wounded in a strike that also claimed the life of his wife. According to Iranian media reports, his home in Tehran was targeted on Wednesday in a US-Israeli strike.

"In today's bombing of residential homes in Tehran by the American-Zionist enemy, Dr Kamal Kharazi was injured," Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency reported. The 81-year-old is said to have been badly injured and hospitalised following the attack.

A highly influential figure in Tehran's corridors of power, Kharazi was an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

An academic by qualification, Kharazi was awarded a PhD in industrial psychology by the University of Houston, where he was ...